This morning I did the 70-647 PRO windows 2008 exam. It was quite difficult but I managed to pass with a score of 910.
By doing this exam I have become MCITP Enterprise Administrator.
See my complete certificate list here

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I tried this a few times and did not succeed. My colleague came to me with the correct solution. The key is that you have to run the command prompts with elevated privileges.
Follow these steps and your upgrade from Standard license to Enterprise license will succeed (well…it did in our farm ):

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

Planned 2 more exams today to complete my MCITP Enterprise Administrator certificate. 13th of July 070-620 Vista Configuring (unfortunately no Windows 7) and 27th of July 070-647 PRO Windows Server 2008.
I’ll keep you informed.

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

Recently I was troubleshooting a SharePoint farm of a customer. The crawl of the content sources did not work and always ended with a “access denied” error in the crawl log. In the eventlog event ID 2436 appeared: “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add [...]

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Recently I posted an article (here) about getting SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 to work at a Windows 2008 Server. It worked so far that SSRS is now working in Native mode but not yet in SharePoint Integrated mode. There are some Kerberos errors in the eventlogs. So, I searched the internet for information about [...]

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In a series of posts I shall update you about my experiences with building a Windows 2008 Server with RMS and SharePoint 2007.
I try to install everything on one server. Windows 2008 AD DS is already installed.
When installing RMS on an AD DS server the AD RMS service account, which normally has to be a [...]

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Today I passed exam 70-649. The upgrade exam to Windows Server 2008. Studied a long time for it but passed quite easily. If you have a lot of Windows 2003 experience combined with Windows 2008 experience, try the exam!
With this exam I got the following certificates:
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 [...]

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MarC on February 9th, 2009

Interesting link I came across through twitter. Powershell commands to create, remove or update objects in Active Directory.
Try it yourself at Quest.

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MarC on January 29th, 2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 beta 1 is available at Microsoft. You can download it here.
Product keys are available at the download site.

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admin on December 15th, 2008

The CPP beta 2 of Vista and Server 2008 is available. You can download both here.
In addition to all previously released updates, SP2 will contain changes focused on addressing reliability and performance issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards.

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